“Evaluating Bone Age and Predicting Young Athletes’ Final Height by a Novel Ultrasound Device (Sonicbone’s BAUSportTM) and their Applications to Talent Selection, Training and Sports Medicine”.

“BAUSportTM can serve as a routine tool for implementation of more scientifically-based programs for training and injury prevention in youth athletes, with better talents selection process for various sports”.

“On the need for national, racial, or ethnic-specific standards for the assessment of bone maturation”.

Conclusion: The notion that genes are the primary determinants of physiognomy, which also includes growth-related traits, has been repeatedly disproved. Based on a fundamental understanding of phenotypic plasticity and an individual’s ability to respond to environmental cues, we do not need ethnic-specific standards for bone maturity.

“Shorter and thinner pubertal but not pre-pubertal children have delayed BA as compared to taller and heavier children. ii) The full-length phalanx maturation is affected by height more than the wrist and metacarpals’ epiphyses. iii) The radius-ulna epiphyses are affected by BMI more than the metacarpals and phalanx. iv) These influences have now on to be accounted for in the assessment of a BA.”

ESPE 2013 Abstract (European Society of Pediatric Endocrinology):

“Bone age assessment by a novel quantitative ultrasound based device, SonicBone, is comparable to the conventional Greulich and Pyle method”

Horm Res Paediatr 2013; 80(suppl 1):35

Conclusion (N=150):

“SonicBone device is safe, non-invasive, radiation free and highly reproducible. Its BA assessment in a population of children attending pediatric endocrinology clinics is comparable to BA by GP method and can overcome its drawbacks”.